With privilege granted Aug. 11, 1551 to Jean Mounier and Jean Perrin, publishers of Toulouse, followed by their permission to Bonhomme in heavier type

Full-page woodcut port. of the author, A2v. Allegorical figure, B3v. The ill. for each of the 100 emblems appears on the left p. of an opening, with the Latin text in italics followed by the French text in roman on the right. Strapwork, interlace or arabesque borders surround the title and most pages (printed from four blocks, many repeats). In some of them the initials I M or I P of the Toulouse publishers appear, and some have the date 1551

Signatures: A-O⁸ P¹

Binding: 19th-century black goatskin, tooled in gilt on boards, spine, edges and turn-ins. Signed in gilt at foot of front turn-in: Hardy-Mennil. Page edges gilt

Leaf H1 reversed in binding, so the ill. to emblems 44 and 45 face each, as do their texts in the next opening. Text and cut of emblem sparingly colored in red

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